The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-06-16
CURRENT TOPICS.

'ehssH" N ihc picturesque nnmo
OF Pennsylvania village.
"oLvrs and foxes arc rapidly increaalng
IN some sections OF Illinois.
NEw YoHK is making n movement for
threc-cent street car fares.
MISSOURI woman, six feet tall has jus,
married a man Of four fcot four.
THE viii Of Mrs Henry Wood. the Eng.
hhh aathoress, boqucaths f9G,OO0
Nnw Honas latest novelty isa clorls
Association for marrying rich women.
THh salmon each in the Sacrament.
rifcf, California, isnlmost total failure
Tnr past month Of May was the drycst
known IN tho records Of the Signal Scr.
vice.
fITTrbuRdn expects u have all hcr cleo
ric wires underground by July 4 next
year.
Mn TnoSrsoS. OF New York, has made
H'oc,oO out OF pics in tho last twenty
years.
1Hn notorious cx-0ovcrnor Moses, Of
South Carolina, is pardoned out Of jail
again.
A ucESsn 70 practice law has been
issued 10 David Royston. colorcd, at Ash.
land, Miss,
~ California they wear lhimblcs while
eating grapes 70 avoid staining the iiugors
with the fruit.
EbwiN hoorn and Mrs. I.angtry sfro both
investing largely in mortgages on Now
York property
TINS amount realized from The salo Of the
French crown jewels, completed the other
day, was si;7iGOoi
30 called Vienna bread wo have In this
conn,ry Is said by q correspondent TO be
unknown IN Austria.
THrRr'a millions tn Mexico, otherwise
hes' could the total deb: af the country
amount 10 tl5l.0oo,0OO.
TnK death Of William A. Wheeler leaves
The venerable Hannibal HRmhn tho sole
living cxiNico- President
The President aud his wife celebrated
tho first anniversary Of their marriage by
fishing and lighting mosquitoes.
BniaHr's disease seems TO be a inalady
OF distinguished men In this country, as
gont Is, orusod 10 be, in England
Corrrr is stlll at fancy figure Of 100
per cent more than Il ia worth, but che
ory and burned peas are very cheap.
II is claimed by Key West physicians
that tho disease Is not yellow foyer, but
merely malignant acclimatlng icyer.
SwrprS has become great exporter
OF butter The amount sent abroad last
year was valued al moro than n, i,0oo,00n
Rncrsr Investigations show that tho
whole country below Lake Superior is n
mass OF mineral mostly magnetic iron
ore.
TnEnE is report that Hon. Charles A.
Dana ia to turn his journalistic tripod over
70 his son, Paul, and retire on January /,
1855.
Az Ohio woman recently cross-exam-
ined her sleep talking husband so effect
lively that a divorce suit is now In full
blast
II is tho purpose Of the Treasury DO
partment 10 substitute paper currency
for gold coin as the money OF tho Pacific
Coast
THE Metlakaha Indians, who are a tribe
OF civilized Indiana from British Coium.
bia, have recently established a colony in
Aiaska.
Miss KATE FiELp has been In Salt Lake
for month watching the effect OF the
Edmunds-Tuekcr law and she pronounces
u q failure.
PHILADELPHIA, Buffalo and other large
Northern cities are preparing 10 celebrate
Independence Day in tho good old-fash.
toned style.
The New York Legislature has passed
law making marriage impossible un loss
the man Is eighteen and the woman sixteen
years ofage.
HOLLOWAY, the patent medicine man,
who recently died, willed his immense
fortune 70 stranger and left his aged sis
ters pcnniless
ALEXANDER coxE, who this year gradu.
ated from Yale, IA the heaviest man who
ever received diploma from that institu-
tion. Ho weighs 2s5 pounds.
THn pack OF salmon so far on the Pacific
coast is smaller than last year, and the fish
received are also diminutive. The pros
poets arc considered gloomy.
SuNFLowERs make good, hot fire, and
for centuries have been raised for fuel in |
Tartary aud Russia Now they are being
cultivated for that purpose IN Dakota.
TIA damage caused in Michigan by tho
forest fires this spring is estimated at ST. |
100000, Il largo part OF which is due 10 |
the,dcstruction OF the town Of Lake Lin
d.
FLORIDA has no State Board OF Health, |
which is unfortunate now that yellow
fever is within her borders. The general |
Government has beer. appealed TO by the
C-tNvnor.
MAJOR PooRE once wheeled barrel Of |
apples upon n wheelbarrow thirty-six
miles, from Indian Hill Farm to Boston, to
pay an election wager in the Presidential
campaign of 1850
ALETTRR from Alaska says that white
men are constantly migrating TO that |
country and its condition is rapidly inn
proving as TO civilization and trade. Many |
Inducements in the way of fishing, stock
raising, gardening, fur hunting and min
ing are offered TO hardy and industrious
settlers.
RupoLrH HERrzoe is the largest dry |,
goods merchant in Berlin. He spends |
100000 a year In advertising. He says
that before he began to advertise he bare
~ cleared his expenses.
SoME trclsster inserted tho letter S into
bill pending in the Illinois Legislature.
II the trick had not been discovered 1t
would have been illegal TO sell "spools'' on
race tracks in that State.
ALEAF Of the giant waterlily Victoria
regia) has been known 10 measure "a feet
ol inches In circumference, Its weight be-
ing nearly IA pounds. One OF the fiowars
was feet inches in circumfsrenos.